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Vanessa Beecroft — VB 35.354 (Show Performance at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)

Vanessa Beecroft

VB 35.354 (Show Performance at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)

Artists

Alex Katz

Alex Katz

Anne Collier

Anne Collier

Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky

Vanessa Beecroft

Vanessa Beecroft

Ding Yi

Christopher Wool

Christopher Wool

Ned Vena

Ned Vena

Kaz Oshiro

Kaz Oshiro

Adam McEwen

Adam McEwen

Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff

Vanessa Beecroft — VB 35.354 (Show Performance at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)

Vanessa Beecroft

VB 35.354 (Show Performance at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)

Alex Katz — Maria I

Alex Katz

Maria I

Alex Katz — Joan

Alex Katz

Joan

Ding Yi — Appearance of Crosses 99-9

Ding Yi

Appearance of Crosses 99-9

Christopher Wool — Over the course of his over four decades long career, Christopher Wool has reestablished and reasserted the primacy of painting, most notably the possibilities inherent within abstraction. Employing a variety of appropriated symbols, novel application techniques, and compositional variety in his work, Wool has found critical success trailblazing new forms of expression in an age oversaturated with communication. Wool’s art manifests a wholly unique power in its conceptual core – the idea of how to make a picture that resonates with self-contained and self-reflected authority in an age of visually overstimulated meaninglessness. Wool most often does so by drawing the viewer in to investigate the very nature of the painting itself, utilizing an economy of means that focusses one’s attention on only the most pertinent of questions, more how and why than what. This simplicity is what led him to the industrial stamp-roller frequently employed by urban slumlords to decorate dilapidated tenement buildings. Utilizing a basic floral motif, Wool coolly establishes in his early painting,

Ned Vena — They are strikes or marks across the surface of a pattern, similar to a brushstroke, but arrived at in a pattern that invokes digital files, industrial processes, and ultimately a failure in application.

Kaz Oshiro — Tailgate (YO TO YO)

Anne Collier — Studio Floor #1 (Marylin)

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